Common name: Butterfly tree. Small to medium-sized tree cultivated in the Philippines as ornamental plant. Leaves alternately arranged in two ranks on the stem branches. Simple leaf with entire margin, deeply cleft tip and palmately netted venation. Flowers in short raceme, petals narrow and lavender to purple in color. Stamens 3 to 4. Pistil simple, unicarpellate with marginal ovule placentation. Fruits long cylindric pods. Native to India.